Factsheet
LTIFR
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate
0.08
2019
Invested in social projects
$47.3M
2019
Employees received training
93%
2019
Our ESG Priorities in 2020
- Enhancing our integrated HSE Management System by introducing new initiatives on occupational health and safety, including training on injury prevention and traffic safety, introducing daily medical checks
- Protecting our environment by decreasing our water intake from natural sources per production unit, developing tires recycling and other waste recycling facilities, maintaining low levels of greenhouse gas emissions, conducting studies and assessing biodiversity, introducing new environmental reporting guidelines
- Introducing a new certification for our cyanide management code
- Developing infrastructure in our regions of operation
Polyus ESG factsheet
GHG emissions
45.1%
Reduction 2019 vs. 2015
Water recycled and reused
94%
2019
Spent on HSE
$19M
2018
Score on the Bradley curve
2.4
2019
Key achievements in 2019
- Switching to hydropower: Polyus launched the Razdolinskaya –Taiga power grid connecting Olimpiada and Blagodatnoye to sources of hydropower. This reduced energy consumption from non-renewable energy sources (coal and oil) produced at own thermal power stations and diesel power plants. The move will also reduce the volume of GHG emissions into the atmosphere and the consumption of water resources which were used to cool turbines at the thermal power plants.
- Waste management campaign: Implementing the Separate & Recycle campaign
- Biodiversity studies in the Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk Regions; over 749 thousand fish released into local river systems
- Launching domestic and effluent water treatment facilities at Krasnoyarsk Business Unit
- Introducing environmental protection training courses for employees
- Implementation of the Reclamation and Mine Closure Standard and the Cyanide Management Standard
Average level of safety culture development according to the Bradley scale, 2015–2020
Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) by business unit, per 200,000 hours worked, 2018
Total registered injuries (TRI), 2015–2018
Polyus in major ESG ratings and indices
Sustainalytics | 29.2 (2020, on a scale from 0 to 100 where 100 is the highest level of risk) |
MSCI | A (January 2020) |
SAM SCA | Company score:54 Percentile ranking: 72 — October 2020 |
FTSE4Good | Constituent of FTSE4Good EM index since December 2018 |
ISS Oekom | C |
CDP (Climate Change Score) — ICMM: membership since 2015 — WWF: 1st place among Russian corporates in 2019 — UN Global Compact: membership since 2019 |
D |